NNPP: We’ll run issue-based campaign — but other parties shouldn’t undermine us

Rufai Alkali, national chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), says his party will run an issue-based campaign.

Speaking on Monday at a media briefing in Abuja, Alkali said the NNPP would abide by the peace accord signed by all political parties.

“We promise to run an issue-based campaign. We are not going to engage in abuse. Our supporters all over the country are under instruction not to engage in negative campaigns or violence,” he said.

“We will adhere strictly to the words and letters of the peace accord signed last month. But we call others not to take us for granted and try to undermine our campaign activities.”

The NNPP chairman said Rabiu Kwankwaso, the party’s presidential candidate, is the best individual for the position of president.

“One incontrovertible fact is that his excellency, senator Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, is the best and the most qualified among those contesting for the number one position in the country,” he said.

“His performance in all the positions he had held is second to none.

“He is ready to replicate all the past achievements at the presidency level if elected into office in 2023. Education, health, housing, human capital development — he had made indelible marks in all these areas and many more. His records speak for him.

“This is the icon that the NNPP is offering Nigeria.”

Alkali also asked the feuding members in the south-west to sheath their swords and embrace peace.

“The leadership of the party has resolved as follows; that all feuding parties should eschew bitterness and embrace peace for the sake of the greater good of the party,” he said.

“That the suspension of the executive members has been reversed to status quo ante bellum.

“That the national working committee has set up a peace and reconciliation committee to immediately meet with all the aggrieved parties at Lagos to listen to their grievances and amicably resolve the differences.”